Share your dream and let it be shaped and owned by everyone.
Let your ideas be fluid.
Make your ideas and programs visible, direct and easy.
Encourage community participation so they understand, feel and experience.
Identify interested and committed "Community volunteers".
Give community volunteers specific roles and spheres of control.
Build overall awareness towards the children's right to education.
Encourage direct involvement of the community in the development of schools.
Empower the community to ensure that they begin to "own the programs".
CLT has been involved in the following programs to strengthen the communities of the children
Awareness programs
Good Parenting Practices
Health awareness
Personal hygiene, immunization, first aid, water borne diseases,
drinking water and sanitation, and health & hygiene for adolescent girls.
Social awareness
Family Life Education, awareness on social and legal issues.
Economic awareness
Thrift and credit, entrepreneurship, market survey and bank linkages
Rainwater Harvesting
CLT has done a lot of work on the advocacy of conservation of water and Rainwater Harvesting as a possible viable option. Many schools have visited CLT to learn about the practices.
CLT has also built close to 100 rainwater storage tanks for the village communities. Creating these water reserves has made water available for daily use, eliminated young girls from staying back from schools to fetch water from faraway places and revived Potters’ communities in some villages, as well!
Tsunami Community-rebuilding project - Tamil Nadu
The Village school in Arcottuturai, Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu, was washed away with the Tsunami wave that hit it in 2004. The village was devastated and the 450 children from the surrounding villages were left with no school.
CLT India, in partnership with Intel, worked with the community to rebuild a school community. The school building has classes from 1 to 10th grades with a library, computer lab, amphitheater and a community learning center.
CLT has also undertaken other developmental work for the community :
Formation of Self-help group for the fishermen's group
Facilitating Micro credit for the fishermen's group
Income generating skill development workshop for women
Women’s Learning Extension Program
Everyday, between 11 A.M. and 1 P.M., you could find women in different age groups coming to the Jakkur Center to learn to use computers. Some come to just know about what everyone is talking about, while others would like to learn how to use Search Engines to access information. Yet others that are in late teens or early twenty have come to pick up skills to upgrade their job prospects. Monthly events with special guest speakers are organized.
